2012 annual report - Cleveland Jazz Orchestra

Thank You for Your Generous Support in Fiscal 2012
Arranger ($500 - $999)
CJO Jazz Circle
Platinum Circle ($20,000+)
Cleveland Foundation
Gold Circle ($15,000—$19,999)
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture
The George Gund Foundation
William J. and Dorothy K.
O’Neill Foundation
Founder's Circle ($10,000—$14,999)
Cleveland Clinic—
Glickman Urological and Kidney
Institute
John P. Murphy Foundation
Composer's Circle ($5,000 - $9,999)
Eaton Corporation
Irv & Gloria Fine
The Kulas Foundation
Producer's Circle ($2,500 - $4,999)
Fifth Third Private Bank
Anna Greenfield
Daniel and Ethel Hamburger Music
Fund, Harold and Sandra Levine,
Trustees
Ohio Arts Council
Director's Circle ($1,000 - $2,499)
Joel & Vivienne Brotman
Reinhold Federmann
Chuck & Char Fowler
vic & Joan Gelb
John & Beth Klayman
Janet L. Kramer
Nobby Lewandowski
Ralph & Carol Meyer
Brian & Cynthia Murphy
Anonymous, In Loving Memory of
Eleanor B. Calfee
David & Katharine Parker
Anonymous
The Albert B. & Audrey G. Ratner
Family Foundation
Dennis & Marcy Schwartz
Marjorie Shorrock
U.S. Bancorp Employee Matching
Gift Program
Jules & Fran Belkin
Susan & John Benedejcic
Eaton Corporation Matching Gift
Program
David & Sarah Gedeon
Mar-Bal, Inc.
Murphy Family Foundation
Alice R. Sayre
“Tee” Stallworth
Adrienne L. Stemen
James & Kathleen Szabo
Soloist ($250 - $499)
Carl Aukerman
John E. Butauski
Tim Clarke & Linda Grandstaff
Max Dehn
T. Feith & J. Taylor
Dr. & Mrs. Alvin E. Fulton
Rick and Carole Kender
Stanley Kline
Gregory Klucher
Frank & Shirley Kysela
Marc & Debora Lynn
George & Carole Morris
Marjorie & Bert Moyar
Michael & Lisa Orlandi
Anne M. & Thomas C. Palmer
Judy & Harvey Relman
Mark & Celeste Ribbins
Pamela & James Rowe
Bob & Linda Sebo
Helen & Bill Shackleford
Tiffany Taylor
Lead Chair ($100 - $249)
Christopher G. Axelrod
Chas Baker & Pat Elliott
Steven Balogh
Anonymous
Tom Benda
Donald Bercu
Lew Bernard, Jr.
Frederick W. Brown &
Barbara M. Brown
Kenneth H. Cooley
Jordan Davis & Catherine Butler
David B. Dawson
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Dettelbach
George W. Diehl
Bob & Eleanor Dreshfield
Electronic Salesmasters
Incorporated
Mary Kim Elkins
Donald Esarove
Joe Fortunato
Eric & Debbie Friedman
Arlene W. Fritz
Philip & Beth Goldstein
David Hazelwood
Jane & Ed Hendershot
Robert & Lillian Horton
H. David Howe, Jr.
George Mitchell Hunter
Dick E. Ingersoll
Bobby Jackson & Lisa-Jean Sylvia
Kelly Janoch
Jerry Jelinek
Linda & Thomas Kiousis
Audrey & Kenny Koblitz
Gerrit Kuechle
Carol A. Laird
Dan & Andrea Leibundgut
Robert E. Lemmers
Devere & Liz Logan
Tom & Glenda Madden
Anonymous
O'Donnell Family
Bill & Joan Park
Mr. and Mrs. James and
Marian Patterson, In Memory
of Lois Weisman
Patrick J. & Trudy Pauken
Richard Powidel
Gregory L. Reese
Don & Joanne Reiss
Shirley A. Riedy
Dr. Daniel E. Schwartz
Steve & Carol Spackey
Nonie & Phil Stella
Marty & Jim Tracy
Allen & Stefanie Wass
Ken & Kay Welsh
Carlo Wolff &
Karen Sandstrom
The Wyatts
Adele & Henry Zucker
Sideman ($1 - $99)
Franklin P. & Phyllis A. Abbott
Anonymous
Rod & Shari Allwood
Anonymous
Anonymous
Don Babets
Loretta M. Baldwin
Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Alicia Berg,
In Memory of Lois Weisman
Martin & Louisa Berger
Anonymous
Les Blakemore
Julia Mineeva-Braun &
Kelsey T. Braun
Dick & Mary Breitenstein
Ed Brobeck
Nita L. Brown
Dorothy Burnett
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Chaka
Robert & Judith Charlick
Chris & Nora Cieplowski
Cleveland Clinic Independence
Pediatric Practice,
In Memory of Lois Weisman
Anonymous
Richard F. Dacek
Carolyn Danielson
Louise & Chris Duprey,
In Memory of Lois Weisman
Catherine S. Ellsworth,
In Memory of John Ellsworth
Rev. Leatrice J.W. Emeruwa,
Ed.D.
Gaylen & Linda Emond
Ann L. & Benjamin F. Farah
Bud Ford
Martha Goble
Anonymous
Carolyn E. Gordon, Ph.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Neil & Enid Gurney,
In Memory of Lois Weisman
John & Stella Ann Hetzer
Karen & Marc Jaffe
Merritt Johnquest
Steve Kadish &
Anne DesRosiers
Mrs. Lois C. Katovsky,
Michael O'Donnell
David & Judie Perelman
Kathy Peters
Don & Donalene Poduska
Greg Polyak & Marcia Snavely
Polyak
Greg Reese
Stuart B. Reese
Stuart & Sharon Schultz
Mrs. Sue Sherwin,
In Memory of Lois Weisman
Anonymous
John & Mary Kay Skvasik
William Sluzewski
Howie Smith & Barbara
Fitzhugh
Kathy Smith
Susan B. Snider
Robert & Germaine Spencer
Ann & Buddy Sullivan
Lynne E. Check Voltz
Mitsunori Wada
Mary Warren
Elaine Weiss
Marilyn & Bill Witt
George Woideck
Alan Wolk
CJO Jazz
Cheapskate’s Society: $24.99
2012 Members
James Cairns
Jordan Davis
Gaylen & Linda Emond
In Memory of Lois Weisman
Stan & Marilyn Koci
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Kent
Joanne M. Lewis
Gail Kichler
Cathy J. McCall
George Kiteley
Anonymous
Lynn, Ira, Robert & Elyse
Shirley Riedy
Krumholz, In Honor of the 50th Colleen G. Sherman
Anniversary of Jackie and Don Susan B. Snider
Bercu
Scott A. White
Peter J. Kvidera &
Melanie A. Shakarian
In-Kind Contributions
Lake Network LLC
Thank you to these individuals and
Sally Lewis
businesses for providing in-kind
Scott M. Lewis
goods and services during Fiscal
2012: Mr. Irving B. Fine, Mr. Ralph
Carl D. Lindblom, Jr.
Meyer, Mr. John Klayman, Mr. Greg
Anonymous
Klucher, Mrs. Marie Federmann,
Mike McGraw
Mr. Doug Klein, WCPN, and Northern
Tina & Ken Michaels
Ohio Printing.
Mrs. Walter E. Moll
C.M. Moore, Ph.D.
Annette Morrow
Michele R. Myers
Deborah L. Neale
Nancy Neylon & Richard Croll
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra is a non-profit, large ensemble dedicated to performing and creating traditional and emerging jazz at the highest professional artistic level.
2012 ANNUAL REPORT
Board of Directors
Daniel R. Leibundgut, President
Ralph Meyer, Executive VP
Gregory L.. Reese, VP of Development
Adrienne L. Stemen, VP of Governance
Joel A. Brotman, Past President
Dick E.. Ingersoll, Treasurer
Jordan Davis
Alvin E.. Fulton
David J. Gedeon
Bobby Jackson
Debora Lynn
Marc Lynn
Christopher Murphy
Mark Ribbins
June “Tee” Stallworth
Adrienne Stemen
Carlo Wolff
Staff
Erika Federmann, Director of Development
Mary Glauser, Director of Communications &
Community Outreach
Colleen G. Sherman, Administrative Director
Vision and Mission
Our VISION is to celebrate jazz as a uniquely
American art form. Our MISSION is to enrich the
cultural and intellectual fabric of the
communities we serve through jazz.. We
NOURISH our community by actively leading in
our region's cultural community, promoting
Cleveland, reflecting Cleveland's diversity, and
serving as a musical beacon. We PERFORM to
play the best jazz you've ever heard and the
best jazz you've never heard. We EDUCATE our
community by celebrating cultural unification
through jazz and by inspiring new generations
of jazz listeners, players, teachers, and jazz
lovers. We SUSTAIN our existence in the
community by optimizing earned revenue,
providing appropriate market compensation,
and securing funding to ensure our survival in
perpetuity.
Dear CJO Fan,
Thanks for another great year of Cleveland jazz! As we look back at the 2011/2012 concert season, we remain
grateful for your continued support. Your ticket purchases, individual gifts, concert sponsorships and
institutional support have allowed us to expand our season programming, helping us reach new
audiences and bringing the very best jazz to the Cleveland community. You’ve invested your time and your
financial resources in the CJO and we’ve prepared this Annual Report to provide you with an accounting of how
we did over the past fiscal year: who we served, what we offered, where we received our operating revenue and
how we spent our funds. You’ll find all of this information here.
Artistic highlights of our 2011/2012 season included our first-ever NEA Jazz Master with the incomparable Jimmy
Heath at the Ohio Theatre, two sold-out concerts at the Hanna Theatre, and a brand-new Jingle Bell Jazz family
matinee of our popular holiday concert. We developed wonderful new collaborations and partnerships with
Broadway School of the Arts and Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (MOCA) which helped us serve new and
different audiences. Our second annual benefit event at Nighttown netted nearly twice as much as our first effort. We also upgraded our website and grew our Facebook presence from under 1,000 fans to over 3,000.
Looking ahead to our 2012/2013 season we’re excited to continue our popular pre-show talks, the family concert
and our existing collaborations. We’re also thrilled to add one more CJO Plugged In concert plus new
partnerships with other community-based Cleveland music organizations. We remain focused on serving as a
responsible steward of your gifts and grants and collaborating, creating and connecting with other Cleveland
non-profit organizations to help sustain ourselves and support our community.
We hope this Annual Report gives you some perspective on what we’ve accomplished during the past year. We’re
excited to share this information about where we’ve been—and we’re even more excited about where CJO is
headed.
Yours in Cleveland Jazz,
Sean Jones
Artistic Director
Paul Ferguson
Associate Artistic Director
Daniel R. Leibundgut
President
FISCAL 2012 HIGHLIGHTS
In 2011/2012 CJO
EXPANDED. CJO added two more concerts
to its Annual Concert Series, including a CJO
Plugged In electric band concert and a new
Jingle Bell Jazz Family Matinee. In 2011/2012
we served over 2,700 listeners at 8 CJOproduced concerts. Over the past five years
CJO has doubled the number of its selfproduced concerts and quadrupled its total
audience.
EDUCATED. CJO educated audiences and
the community at large through free
pre-show talks, a family holiday concert, a
free outreach concert with Broadway
School of the Arts, and a master class with
NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath.
COLLABORATED. New collaborations with
Broadway School of the Arts, Museum of
Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Big
Brothers/Big Sisters and Tri-C helped CJO
widen its reach in the community.
ENGAGED. A newly upgraded website makes
it easier for regular patrons and new fans to
find info about CJO. Through Facebook, CJO
regularly engages more than 3,000 friends
with contests, programming questions and
insider info about what’s new with CJO.
REACHED. CJO’s recordings are played
regularly on satellite radio and are
purchased online by jazz fans throughout the
U.S., Japan, Australia and Europe! Each year
CJO serves over 10,000 listeners of all ages,
income levels and backgrounds in
Cleveland, Northeast Ohio and the world .
Annual Concert Series
CJO served over 2,600 listeners at seven ticketed concerts:
Nov. 5, 2011, Hanna Theatre, Cleveland Voices, showcasing Cleveland
guest vocalists Ki Allen, Evelyn Wright and John Morton in concert with CJO.
Dec. 10, 2011, Hanna Theatre, Not So Silent Night, featuring full-band and
small-ensemble jazz treatments of classic holiday tunes.
Dec. 11, 2011, Hanna Theatre, Jingle Bell Jazz FAMILY MATINEE, a new concert for families with young children featuring a
hugely successful pre-show instrument “petting zoo” and a 60-minute interactive concert.
Feb. 4, 2012, Hanna Theatre, Celebration of the Big Band, showcasing the evolution of the big band from early swing to its
current sounds.
March 9, 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), CJO Plugged In, featuring Sean Jones and the members of Hubb’s
Groove, this concert continued CJO’s successful small-ensemble electric jazz concept and initiated a successful new
collaborative relationship with MOCA. Other highlights included a VIP cocktail reception and private gallery tours.
April 1, 2012, Fairmount Temple Auditorium, Swingin’ at the Temple, the CJO’s annual tribute to Jewish composers led by
Associate Artistic Director Paul Ferguson with vocalist Helen Welch.
May 12, 2012, Ohio Theatre, NEA Jazz Master Concert, featuring National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Jimmy
Heath in a master class, pre-show discussion and guest performance with the CJO.
Contract Performances
Each year CJO is hired by outside
organizations and presenters. This
represents a valuable stream of earned
revenue to the organization—and it helps
increase CJO’s visibility within and outside
the community.
In Fiscal 2012 CJO performed contract
engagements at:
Hudson Summer Music Festival
The Chautauqua Institution (New York)
City of Bedford Festival of the Pooka
EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
Free Outreach Concert with Broadway School of the Arts
CJO collaborated with Broadway School of the Arts to present a free outreach concert of the CJO Quartet, led by
Sean Jones, to over 100 students, family members and Broadway community members. Presented at Bohemian Hall
in November, 2011, this concert provided a one-hour “Intro to Jazz” which featured graduates of Broadway School of the
Arts in performance with the CJO. A lively Q&A session with the CJO musicians followed (plus birthday cake in honor of
Broadway School of the Art’s 30th anniversary!)
Master Class with Jimmy Heath
CJO worked with Tri-C to present and publicize a free master class with NEA
Jazz Master Jimmy Heath at the Tri-C Metro Campus. Students from Tri-C and
Oberlin performed for Mr. Heath and received his personal critique. Then
Mr. Heath entertained a capacity audience of 70 with colorful stories of his life
among other jazz legends.
Join us for
our
2012-2013 CJO
Concert Season
Pre-Show Talks
CJO Community
Leadership Council
Fred Weisman—Honorary Chairman
Jules & Fran Belkin
Irving & Gloria Fine
Vic & Joan Gelb
Anna Greenfield
Nobby Lewandowski
Albert & Audrey Ratner
Dennis & Marcy Schwartz
Dominic A. Visconsi, Sr.
Free pre-show talks before every PlayhouseSquare concert featured CJO
musicians, such as Paul Ferguson, Dave Morgan and Howie Smith, plus
special guest Jimmy Heath, in conversation with local jazz experts to
educate and inform audiences about the evening’s program.
Free Tickets to Big Brothers/Big Sisters & Boys/Girls Clubs
CJO provided over 100 free tickets to members of Cleveland Big Brothers/Big
Sisters so that “bigs” could bring their “littles” to CJO’s Hanna Theatre
concerts. CJO also provided Boys Clubs/Girls Clubs of Cleveland with 100
free tickets to the family holiday concert.
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra is generously funded by the residents of Cuyahoga County through
a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this organization with state tax dollars to encourage economic
growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
Contact Us
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
713 Lincoln Blvd.
Bedford OH 44146
440.945.6428
clevelandjazz.org